Cat Frog

She jumps from a lily pad
to the kitchen window

and peers in around the corner
her eyes bulge
green and gold

like electric bulbs
focused on a morsel
her tail swipes at the
air and the tongue
unrolls in a flash
of hunger

dead cicadas line the doorway

now she is swimming underwater
fur webs that provide momentum
and whiskers bulge from expanded cheeks

one of a kind
acting in ways nature
never prescribed